uwmspeccoll:Milestone MondayOn this day, February 14 in 1779, British explorer Captain James Cook wa
uwmspeccoll:Milestone MondayOn this day, February 14 in 1779, British explorer Captain James Cook was killed on the shores of Kealakekua Bay on the main island of Hawaii. Perhaps it speaks to a macabre streak in us here at UWM Special Collections that it is the second time we have highlighted this event on a day when others might wax poetic about love: see our previous post on Cook and the 1957 Limited Edition’s Club printing of The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of his Journals, 1768-1779.For this Milestone Monday, we present book artists Peter and Donna Thomas’s Four Views of Kealakekua Bay, published in Santa Cruz in 1998. This petit scroll is mounted in a wooden and pasteboard rolling frame, with a linocut by Donna and printed on handmade paper crafted by Peter in an edition of 75 copies. Included are excerpts from the writing of Cook and Mark Twain, as well as lyrics from a Johnny Noble song, providing three literary views of Kealakekua to compliment the pictorial view of the bay. View more Milestone Monday posts here. -Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern -- source link
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